A DAY IN THE LIFE // Peace Corps South Africa

[Music] welcome to the day in the life of a peace score South Africa volunteer I didn't originally intend to film a voiceover for this but it's just kind of how it worked out not going to lie I feel pretty awkward but we're just going to go with it my morning starts usually between 6:00 and 7 a.m. not because I voluntarily wake up at that time but because I go to bed so early cuz I live such an exciting life that that's just when my body naturally wakes up so here I am opening my door cuz that's what I do in the morning and I'm greeted by Ginger my dog a she's so cute and her boyfriend Obie who she's currently dating whose real name I think is bomba or something but Obie's way cuter I have tons of chores to do in the morning because that's just how village life is so here I am emptying my dirty water from the night before dirty water includes water that I used to cook with water that I bathed with and probably a little bit of pee too not going to lie uh basically all the water that you and I previously would have flushed down a drain now I'm cleaning out the bucket that I bathe in so that it's nice and clean for my bath tonight and I'm going to go set that out to dry by this point it's already getting hot that's just Africa for you hot all the time and now I'm going to brush my teeth not that exciting also kind of gross so I'm pretty sure I'm only going to show you like one second of this and yes I do brush my teeth outside I do everything outside and now I'm time to make some tea or coffee depending on how much sleep I got the night before and how tired I am and you will never be more aware of how much water you use than when you have to walk outside every time you want [Music] some I make my bed every morning old Hobbits Die Hard am I right and I look good doing it oh and there's gingi she always comes in to take a little nap in her Corner that's the only Corner she's allowed in just kidding she jumps on my bed all the time without asking and then I pick out an outfit o what is she going to wear today M no not that one not cute keep going all right once I'm dressed I'm using that hot water that you just saw me boil to make some tea [Music] yummy time to get breakfast started so I plug in my hot plate put on a pan and toast some bread I don't have a toaster so I have to toast all my bread like this um I'm making some cinnamon sugar toast thank you for introducing me to this like 2 years ago um just toast butter cinnamon sugar pretty delicious normally I eat like four but for the sake of filming I just made one um I like to eat my breakfast and drink my tea while watching to cute too cute if you've never seen too cute I highly recommend it it's basically a coming of agage story of kittens and puppies it's flipping adorable so I lock out my stuff get my stuff together head out and the dogs follow me everywhere I go but that's nice it's like having friends I imagine show up at work say hi to everyone oh hi and head to my desk oh look Morgan changed outfits the original day I was filming my day in the life there was a lot of construction going on in our offices so I decided to to come back the next day and refilm um I like to use my mornings to catch up on any work so right now I'm filling out my VF volunteer reporting form that I have to do quarterly to report what projects I'm doing in the community I also use this time to help my supervisor apply for Grants and I plan projects plan out my week stuff like [Music] that around 10 I head to the crush which is the preschool that I work at I do a literacy program here a couple times a week here are my adorable cute little kids they're so cute I'm obsessed and by now I'm gross so I just wanted to show you what I look like by 10 this is the literacy program I do it's called sounds s o u NS and it basically helps children with literacy reading and wri writing by using the sounds the letters make versus the names of the actual letters I love this program I raved about it in many a blog post I highly recommend that you check it out especially if you have a young one at home you want to help with literacy and even remedial Literacy for older children it's my favorite program and I've seen so much progress in the kids um after I do an hour or so at The Crush I'm heading to the middle school I was inv Ed to an event where they were starting an STI awareness club which is [Music] awesome mosito mosito mosito mosquito normally I eat lunch at home but today since I traveled to the middle school for the event I decided to pick up some lunch at one of my favorite little restaurants in my Village I got a Kota which looks like this and my cameraman got some chicken chakalaka and pop which is a very traditional South African meal after lunch I headed to a different Primary School in our community because we were doing a handwashing lesson teaching the kids about germs and health now this is just one example of something that I would do in the afternoons um at different points in my service I'm doing different activities like GRS zazzy brothers for life uh just depends really where I'm at and what I'm trying to teach the kids and what's needed in my community one thing I love about Peace Corp and the health program specifically is that you get to really cat your service around not just what the community needs but also what you have interest in and I love working with kids so I've kind of catered my service to that which is why I'm always doing activities with primary school middle school kids kids whereas other volunteers might be working with adults in the community for instance after the handwashing lesson we handed out mother bears mother bear is an amazing organization in America that uses volunteers to hand crochet small teddy bears that are then sent for free to children in Africa and usually distributed by peace volunteers I wanted to freeze frame this hug right here cuz my cameraman turned off the camera right as it was ending uh here are the kids leaving the school at the end of the day with there teddy bears in hand so cute after work I usually spend an hour or so just straight chilling like a villain but that's not interesting so we're going to cut to yoga I do yoga almost every day I actually hurt my wrist really bad so if you will notice when I do different poses I have to do them on my fist sometimes I run in the afternoons but I'm actually coming off a fractured ankle so I'm still getting back into running shape I have to burn my trash in my trash pit there's no like South African trash service at least not in the rural communities so um for my pyromaniac friends out there here's some burnning trash if you noticed when I was doing yoga there were a ton of dirty dishes sitting on the ledge so here I am contemplating whether I want to do them which the answer is always no just kidding I did them eventually and it's time for dinner I'm just making some pasta because because my cooking skills are quite limited I don't normally eat this much pasta I made some for the cameraman as well pasta's really hot after you make it so I cool it off in front of the fan I didn't show eating my pasta cuz I think we all know what that looks like but this is me getting ready to bathe I'm pretty sure how I bathe is like the most asked question I get so here you go um to wash my hair I go outside and I wash it in the SP it I don't use conditioner and I also only wash my hair once a week probably so if you want luscious locks like mine that's what I recommend once week daily no conditioner and outside in a bucket hair stylists are going to kill me to wash my body I fill my bucket up with water and put it on the towel normally I do this nak it but um I wasn't about to film a porn so I'm doing it clothed I start by washing my face and then I use my washcloth to get my body wet or you know pretend to washcloth is your best friend when you're bucket bathing and then put soap on my body and use use the washcloth to take the soap off start with a top then I do the legs and then I do my private areas and my feet and there you go go after bucket bathing I get ready for bed and I just hang out and I watch stuff on my computer not using Wi-Fi I don't have Wi-Fi I use shows passed around by volunteers on external hard drives and I usually spend this time texting people in the States because my night time is their daytime and that's when they're all awake and I just chill and hang out relax Max and all cool just kidding I also use this time to talk on the phone to my boyfriend because being in a long-distance relationship or as I like to call ours a medium distance relationship is difficult now it's time for bed putting all my stuff on my chair taking off my glasses and getting into bed I'm sure you do it the same way in the states just kidding I know you do well I'm off to sleep and I'm going to do it all again tomorrow anyway thank you so much for watching if you want to know more about peace core I suggest you check out my blog and subscribe and all that jazz thank you so much to Alex for filming this and I will talk to you guys later

Channel: Morgan Through A Lens

Views: 36,474

Keywords: peace corps, south africa, hiv, aids, community, volunteer, travel, diary, day in the life, africa, how i see pc, follow me around

Id: _LdW74SAj_k

Length: 11min 9sec (669 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 06 2017